Galway film wins Best Short Film Award in London

Linda Bhreathnach's Adulting scoops major award at Irish Film Festival London

BY KERNAN ANDREWS Galway Advertiser, Tue, Nov 15, 2016

L-R: Linda Bhreathnach, Sorcha Ní Chéide, and Emma Eliza Regan.

ADULTING, THE County Galway made short film, written and co-directed by Connemara's Linda Bhreathnach, has won the Best Short Film Award from Irish Film London. The award was presented at a ceremony in the Irish Embassy in London on Monday.

Written by Linda Bhreathnach and co-directed and co-produced with Justin Davey, Adulting premiered at this year's Galway Film Fleadh,, and has been acclaimed by BAFTA winner Ferdia Mac Anna as "quirky, insightful and unique", while The Irish Times called it "a poem of a film".

Adulting touches on the pressures engendered by contemporary social attitudes and social media - the pressure to travel, have the ‘perfect’ life and be ‘happy’. It examines the anxiety that vast amounts of choice can sometimes create. “I wanted to write something that was contemporary," said Linda, "and that represented modern Irish women in a way that felt realistic and authentic to me."

Adulting will be screened at the Irish Film Festival London on Wednesday November 23 at 7pm in Regent Street Cinema, as part of the festival’s Best of Irish Short Films Programme. See www.irishfilmfestivallondon.com